Everyone now says coyote with an "oat" for the second syllable. I always thought it was pronounced with a "tea" at the end.
How Do You Pronounce "Coyote"?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 19, 2018 8:21 PM |
I say it with the tea, but I notice a lot of people saying it with oat. Both are acceptable according to MW.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 22, 2012 11:38 AM |
ky-OAT is regional. ky-O-tee is preferred by educated speakers.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 22, 2012 11:42 AM |
r1, "acceptable" by whom? The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 22, 2012 11:45 AM |
Are manigot instead of manicotti and pasta fazool Italian-American usages or from some certain regions in Italy?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 22, 2012 11:54 AM |
Both are acceptable when referring to the four-legged animal. If referring to the two-legged divorcee, the pronunciation is "hore".
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 22, 2012 12:02 PM |
I've never heard anyone say ky-oat! WTF? I've always heard (and said) ky-o-tee.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 22, 2012 12:39 PM |
I've always said "KY-uh-tay"
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 22, 2012 12:55 PM |
R3 ain't the linguist he thinks he is. Dictionaries each have their own rules (prescriptive? descriptive?) and the roles of first and second definitions differ.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 22, 2012 1:00 PM |
I call them Mexican dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 22, 2012 1:12 PM |
Prescriptive dictionaries tell us how words should be pronounced. Descriptive include alternate pronunciations.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 22, 2012 1:43 PM |
Redneck dumbass pronounciation: Ki-OAT
Pronounciation if you don't want to look like a shitkicker to the rest of the world: Ki-o-tee.
Seriously. I don't care what your dictionary says.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 22, 2012 1:48 PM |
R3 is a fucking piece of shit. (Pronounced "sheet.")
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 22, 2012 1:48 PM |
ko-YOH-tay
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 22, 2012 1:55 PM |
You can pronounce it any way you like, just give me a job!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 22, 2012 1:58 PM |
I say ky-OH-tee.
I thought only John Wayne said ky-OAT! I never heard anyone else say it that way.
I've heard Latin Americans say Koh-yoh-tay, though.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 22, 2012 2:11 PM |
LMAO.. English is my second language, but even I know hot to pronounce coyote..
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 22, 2012 2:15 PM |
Two periods?
Hot?
Really?
Don't flatter yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 22, 2012 2:40 PM |
[quote]I thought only John Wayne said ky-OAT! I never heard anyone else say it that way.
And if John Wayne says it that way, it automatically correct.
Here on the prairie (where we actually have them) we say ky-Oat.
It's also a Ro-de-o, unless you're talking about a street in Los Angeles.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 22, 2012 3:04 PM |
Fuck you, Western Podnah @ R18:
Coyotes are all over the South now, as are armadillos, nutria, and fire ants.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 22, 2012 3:13 PM |
I grew up among cowboys who agreed with R18, but they are both Spanish words, thus those pronunciations are gringo bastardizations of the correct ones.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 22, 2012 3:15 PM |
I don't care what kind of petting zoo you folks down south run, R19, and I sure as Hell don't care how they say it in Mexican. I'm just telling you how real Americans (like John Wayne) talk.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 22, 2012 3:20 PM |
Fuck you with a tumbleweed on a broomstick, Nebraskan.
Tell your pal John Wayne he's a douche nozzle.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 22, 2012 3:27 PM |
People who live near the Appalchian mountains say Appa-LA-chin. The rest of America hears appa-LAY-chin on radio and TV.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 22, 2012 3:33 PM |
Most people who live in regions where there are coyotes call them ky-oats. Most people who live elsewhere call them ky-oh-tees.
I have always thought that the people who live there get to decide on the proper pronunciation. So it's properly Mi-zoor-ah and Ellenoy (occasionally Ellenoise), not Mi-zoor-ee and Illinoy. It's John Quinsee Adams but Quinzee, Massachusetts. It's Baldimer, not Balltimore.
So I vote for ky-oats.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 22, 2012 3:37 PM |
[quote]So it's properly Mi-zoor-ah
That depends on where you live in the state.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 22, 2012 3:59 PM |
TX city dweller. I say Ky-oh-tee, but the country folks say ky-oat.
The little critters are all over the place down here.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 22, 2012 4:20 PM |
We have coyotes in the northeast now.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 22, 2012 4:20 PM |
Poor things are looking for food R27. They are fairly harmless. Once in awhile a small dog or cat will get taken but for the most part they are scavengers looking through trash and pet food bowls left outside. I see them all the time in the streets here and half the time I mistake them for mangy dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 22, 2012 4:25 PM |
How the fuck do you think?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 22, 2012 4:27 PM |
I plonounce it ezactry rike karate.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 22, 2012 4:36 PM |
I pronounce it as Co-yo-tay
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 22, 2012 5:09 PM |
Kai-yo-tea
People who pronounce it "kai-yoht" are rubes.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 22, 2012 5:12 PM |
Here's another one. Do you guys says aunt like "ant" or like "ahnt"?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 22, 2012 5:16 PM |
Hon some folks down South say aint. Otherwise it's ant.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 22, 2012 5:19 PM |
Andy Taylor sometimes said "Ain't Bea" if you listen closely
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 22, 2012 5:26 PM |
I lived in California where we had Kai-yo-tees and in Colorado where we had Kai-yohts, so I don't totally buy R24's logic.
It's regional, but Kai-yo-tee does sound better. I would also consider it more proper. And fuck off Nebraskan, you aren't more American than anyone else.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 22, 2012 8:01 PM |
The OP is right and wrong... "OAT" is the pronunciation of the second syllable and "tea" is the pronunciation of the THIRD syllable
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 22, 2012 8:04 PM |
ki-Oat-ee.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 22, 2012 8:10 PM |
Kai Oh Tay. Hay
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 22, 2012 8:40 PM |
"People who pronounce it 'kai-yoht' are rubes."
Are they at least well scrubbed?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 22, 2012 8:45 PM |
[quote]The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.
According to whom?
What horseshit. You just pulled that one completely out of your ass.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 22, 2012 8:56 PM |
Does anyone know why there are coyotes all across North America now? They are even in PEI, Cape Breton and Newfoundland - islands in Eastern Canada.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 22, 2012 9:27 PM |
I've always pronounced it "Patti LuPone." I mean, it's the same face.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 22, 2012 10:16 PM |
Throat Warbler Mangrove
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 22, 2012 10:21 PM |
KI-oats
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 24, 2012 4:54 AM |
It's pronounced "white trash wolf."
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 24, 2012 4:57 AM |
"Eat More Lamb -- 10,000 Coyotes Can't Be Wrong"
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 24, 2012 5:00 AM |
Kye-YO-tay
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 24, 2012 5:27 AM |
Anyone who says "kai-oat" is a complete moron.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 24, 2012 5:56 AM |
The correct pronunciation is KAI-OH-TAH!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 24, 2012 6:17 AM |
I've wondered, but it's been awhile since I spoke with a furriner, but what is unique to 'mericun English as compared with that new "Business English" as well as UK, Aussie, etc? How do Germans, for instance, tell immediately where we are from, except for the other obvious things we won't go into here?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 24, 2012 6:24 AM |
Those that say cyOAT are the same rednecks that call it Missoura
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 24, 2012 7:14 AM |
I thought that the difference was an American v Canadian thing.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 24, 2012 11:06 AM |
it's pronounced "ky-oat" if you've actually gone outside to do something other than tan in your life.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 27, 2014 6:15 PM |
Why isn't is spelled: Ciaote
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 27, 2014 6:20 PM |
It's pronounced "Coy-oat" by 'muricans who think you're a-comin' to take away their guuns.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 27, 2014 6:22 PM |
Ki O tay tay. I like to jazz it up.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 27, 2014 6:23 PM |
No regrets, K'eye-oat-tea!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 27, 2014 6:26 PM |
R55, that would be pronounced "CHOWtay." It would be Italian.
I pronounce it "kyOHdee."
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 27, 2014 6:29 PM |
City people who will probably never actually see a real coyote will pronounce it with a long "e" sound. Country people who encounter the animals frequently will pronounce it with the "oat" ending. I a city person but I pronounce it with an "oat". However, I've seen them on several occasions. I think they are cute. They rarely attack humans and there are no documented cases of them killing a human.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 27, 2014 6:33 PM |
I like the demure lady like way," Kye"
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 27, 2014 6:33 PM |
Isn't it a Spanish word, in which case you pronounce all the vowels (however incorrectly)?
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 27, 2014 6:35 PM |
R60, they do however attack and kill pets which has become a problem in some suburban areas.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 27, 2014 6:36 PM |
Ky-OAT sounds a bit too Grapes of Wrath for me.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 27, 2014 6:36 PM |
The Spanish pronunciation (Koi-YO-tay) sounds much more elegant.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 27, 2014 6:37 PM |
I went to a museum in Mexico City. There was a large matrix on the wall, dividing Mexican society into 16 groups.
The first square was all Spanish blood, and each additional square would have more native, and then black, blood.
It struck me as shockingly racist.
There were names for each square. The only one I remember was the last: Coyotes.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 27, 2014 6:39 PM |
I see coyotes, fox, deer, skunks, raccoons and groundhog in my 65 year old suburban neighborhood. Rural land is probably 30 miles away. Those critters are adaptable.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 27, 2014 6:48 PM |
How does Joni Mitchell pronounce it? Ky-o-tee?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 27, 2014 6:50 PM |
R68: Joni Mitchell never lies.
(Well, except for about how relentlessly perfect her music was.)
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 27, 2014 6:53 PM |
There is (used to be?) a restaurant in Laurel Canyon called "Caioti," which is how I would imagine you'd spell it in Italian (and maybe it's the Italian word for the animal?)
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 27, 2014 6:56 PM |
How would Miss Bette Davis pronounce it
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 27, 2014 6:57 PM |
KY-OAT-EE. not KY-OH-TEE,
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 28, 2014 1:55 PM |
"Cai-HOOOOO-Tee"
You see what I do there: I make a howling sound like a coyote in the middle.
My listeners seem to like my vocal exuberance.
Try it, DLers!
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 28, 2014 2:01 PM |
KY is for the tube of shit that lubes up your hole for a good fucking.
The word is Spanish in origin (Mexican Nahuatl), so it's pronounced KO-YO'-TE (that last syllable is pronounce like TENSE after dropping the -NSE).
You're welcome.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 28, 2014 2:41 PM |
Ees plonounced to lhyme weeth Kara-Tay. Accent on TAY.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 28, 2014 5:02 PM |
No, R75. Ees not French, pendenjo. Ees Spanish. Ees pronounced ko-YO-te.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 28, 2014 5:22 PM |
[quote]The first pronunciation in a dictionary is the one to use. Second, is considered sub-standard.
"Sub-standard"? That's not how it works--you pulled that out of your ass.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 28, 2014 5:23 PM |
Ay ay ay, Salma. It's pendejo not "pendenjo."
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 28, 2014 5:26 PM |
I just say "ohh loook at the dogggggie. So cute wild doggie woggie!!"
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 28, 2014 5:35 PM |
It's coy like roy
Oat like wrote
So say Roy Oat and there you have it.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 28, 2014 5:44 PM |
SU-per GEEN-ius!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 28, 2014 5:51 PM |
Actually, the original pronunciation from the Meso-American language (including Aztecan, see Wikipedia: 'Huehuecoyotle') is:
Co-'YO-teh{tei} - accent, 2nd syllable; the 'o' in the 1st syllable NOT joined with the 'y' in the 2nd syllable producing an incorrect 'coy'; say it syllable-by-syllable, slowly, then with more speed as your tongue and lips get used to the diction using the accent-mark.
And yes, it also meant 'trickster' - even then.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 23, 2014 8:40 PM |
East coast here. I've seen as many coyotes in my life as I have road runners, and they've all been cartoons.
Everyone here says "ki-OAT-ee."
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 23, 2014 8:47 PM |
KAI-OH-TAY
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 23, 2014 8:52 PM |
If you live in either Arkansas or Oklahoma, you rarely hear anyone pronounce it with tea sound at the end. But we are pretty much all hick and redneck. I vouch for us!
by Anonymous | reply 86 | February 13, 2015 12:50 PM |
Hmm, Alaskan here from a rural area (wilderness) with plenty of coyotes, and we pronounce it kye-oat-ees, the so-called city way. I reckon we have far more kye-oat-tees than John Wayne-obsessive Nebraskans have kye-oats.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | February 13, 2015 2:17 PM |
kigh-OH-tee
by Anonymous | reply 88 | February 13, 2015 2:20 PM |
KY-OH-TEE
by Anonymous | reply 89 | February 13, 2015 2:29 PM |
Judy Garland sang "Remember me to Harold Square." The square is Herald, named for a newspaper. Home of Macy's flagship store.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | February 13, 2015 2:44 PM |
In the southwest it is "2 syllable. Would rhyme with "my oat." I believe the pronunciation is regional. I grew up in the Philly burbs and it was 3 syllables.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | February 13, 2015 6:39 PM |
Male is kie-oat. Female is kie-oaty
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 26, 2015 3:23 AM |
Correct way! Last time I checked I wasn't Mexican. Or a redneck.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 27, 2015 8:17 PM |
We don't have them here in my part of the Midwest, but we're with R88 on the pronunciation.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 27, 2015 8:26 PM |
How do you pronounce garage? Is it gar-ridge or garah-ge?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 27, 2015 8:33 PM |
r2
You mean white men who like to marginalize Ebonics.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 27, 2015 10:34 PM |
Ki as in 'kite' + 'Yo, T'.
Ki.Yo.T.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 27, 2015 10:38 PM |
We have coywolves.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 28, 2015 5:22 AM |
Folks is dumb / Where I come from / They ain't had any learnin'
Still they're happy as can be / Wastin' 18 bucks pronouncin' ol' 'cayo-oh-tea'!
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 28, 2015 6:07 AM |
R94: Yes, you do; you just haven't seen them yet.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | June 11, 2015 12:00 PM |
Here where we actually listen to the songs of the coyotes, it's ky-o-tee.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | June 11, 2015 12:10 PM |
Let me just say that the majority of the comments here make Americans look bad.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 19, 2018 8:13 PM |
And you bumped a three-year-old thread for THAT? That makes YOU look bad.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 19, 2018 8:14 PM |
Most random thread bump ever.
Anyway, it's "kye-O-tee".
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 19, 2018 8:17 PM |
And yet some people wonder why other countries think Americans are either idiots or assholes or both.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 19, 2018 8:17 PM |
The correct pronunciation is Coy-OH-tee (Spanish word adopted by Americans) however if you are American then pronounce it any way you want like everything else.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 19, 2018 8:21 PM |